Nele Coll (was under the name Nele Gilis, married to Paul Coll in July 2024) is the Belgian No.1 who broke into the world’s top 10 for the first time in the latter part of 2022. She is also the older sister of another Belgian player, Tinne Gilis. She secured her maiden World Tour level crown at the start of the 2022-2023 season, as she defeated younger sister Tinne in the final of the Open de France de Squash, to the delights of the crowd at Hangar 24 in Nantes. She then made the semis of the New Zealand Open, and the last eight of the Singapore Open, before securing the Malaysian Open Championships crown, moving into the world’s top ten for the first time as a result. The Belgian started 2023 with a last 16 result at the Tournament of Champions, followed by a quarter-final appearance at the World Championships. Gilis then made it to the final of the Manchester Open, followed that up by making the final of the El Gouna International, beating Nour El Sherbini on her way to becoming the first Belgian to reach a major final on the World Tour. She was the champion of the 2023 Singapore Open, a World Tour Gold event in November before the Hong Kong Open where she reached the semi-finals. She won again in the 2023 New Zealand Open after Hong Kong. In 2024, she also reached the semifinals of the World Tour Finals in June.